Chapter 430: It is better to teach a man how to fish than to give him a fish
Before coming out, Lin Fan had prepared himself mentally. He knew that the mountain road would be difficult to walk on, but he didn't expect it to be so difficult! He had to use both his hands and feet to climb up!
This is it, and it is still the best route to walk according to those kids.
There was a boy named A Gang who looked a little taller than the others in the group. He mocked Lin Fan very rudely: "The big guy is not as good as us kids!"
Agang speaks the village dialect. When he was communicating with the site staff before, he spoke Mandarin with a heavy accent, but they could still communicate.
However, when Ah Gang accidentally discovered that Lin Fan could actually understand his dialect, he stopped speaking Mandarin altogether and communicated directly in dialect.
Liang Wen also found it amazing: "When did you learn to understand the dialect here?"
Lin Fan laughed. [Language Expert] Let me know about his skills? Although Ah Gang complained about Lin Fan, he was still very grateful to Lin Fan and his friends for taking the initiative to send him home. Although Ah Gang felt that he was too old to need a ride, he still had to thank them.
In addition, Agang is very interested in what Lin Fan and the others are doing.
“Are you guys filming a movie?”
"Yeah, have you seen the movie?"
"Yes, I have. Every year some uncles and aunts come to the village to show us movies! The school also organizes us to watch movies in town!"
"Do you think the movie is good?"
"It's OK."
"What do you mean?"
Ah Gang sighed like a little adult: "Watching movies is fun, but it's useless. Dad said that if you have that much time, you might as well read and write more, so that you can go to a big city to work and earn money when you grow up. I think what Dad said makes sense. Watching movies doesn't make money, but reading can."
Lin Fan subconsciously glanced at Liang Wen, who was climbing the mountain with his hands and feet and didn't notice this side at all.
So Lin Fan said to Ah Gang: "Your father is right!"
Ah Gang was very happy that his idea was recognized. He climbed to the top of the mountain at a brisk pace and turned back to shout to Lin Fan: "Come here quickly, look, that's the way we usually go to school!"
Lin Fan quickened his pace and climbed to the top of the mountain. Following the direction of Ah Gang's finger, he saw a narrow path on the opposite hillside. There was a high mountain wall above and a deep cliff slope below.
At this moment, it was almost completely dark, and no matter how good Lin Fan's eyesight was, he couldn't see the true condition of the road. But it didn't matter, because Lin Fan had a man named A Gang who walked that road every day.
Ah Gang explained to Lin Fan vividly: "That road is actually quite wide. It can accommodate three big guys like you walking side by side. It is usually very safe. But it is not allowed when it rains. The rocks and muddy water on the mountain will be washed down, and the road will be very slippery. If you fall and fall down the mountain, it will be the end! I don’t know how many people have died on this road! There are adults and children. There is a lame old man in our village who broke his leg after falling down once. My father said it was because the bone was not connected properly... But the road from our village to the middle of this mountain road is much easier to walk."
Lin Fan soon found out what the easy road that Ah Gang was talking about was.
It was a dirt road compacted with yellow mud and gravel. In addition to being formed by natural sedimentation due to the passage of people in the village over the years, there was a section of the road that was obviously artificially repaired, leading all the way to the mountain road that the children had to take to go to school.
But unfortunately, once we reached this side of the mountain road, we couldn’t continue repairing further down.
Because a mountain blocked the way forward.
If they want to continue building this road, they either have to dig a tunnel from the mountain or go around the mountain, which will greatly increase the workload.
Obviously, the road builders in the village chose the latter. Although the project is large, it is at least possible to achieve, and it will only take a little more time. The difficulty of tunnel construction is too great, and it is impossible to achieve it only by relying on the spontaneous participation of the villagers, and it is also too dangerous.
Lin Fan and the others escorted the group of children all the way to the village entrance, waved goodbye to them, and did not go in to disturb the people in the village.
But Lin Fan and his friends didn't want to disturb them. However, after the villagers learned that someone had escorted their children home, they all came out to express their gratitude. Verbal thanks were not enough, and they insisted on giving Lin Fan and his friends all kinds of local specialties and even invited them to their homes for dinner.
The enthusiasm is overwhelming.
As a last resort, Lin Fan and the others had to agree to go into the village to rest and drink a cup of hot water, and they didn't want anything else.
Lin Fan also heard more news from the villagers.
"This road was built by Lame Wei and his men. He built it by himself at first, but later when people had nothing to do at home, they came to help build it. People from the nearby villages on the hills also came to help. If we really build this road to the other side of the mountain, it will not only make it safer for the children to go to school, but it will also be much more convenient for us to go to town."
I just don't know when this road will be completed.
Lin Fan asked, "Have you ever thought about moving out to live?"
"Well, those who can move have already moved! Those who are left can't move." The villagers were helpless.
But Lin Fan understood that the elderly did not want to move because they could not adapt to life outside. The young people did not want to move because they could not change anything outside. They did not have enough ability to afford the cost of a new home. In the mountains, people can still make a living from the mountains. If they leave, how will these people without any skills live? The villagers were not discouraged: "Just because we can't do it now doesn't mean that the children can't do it. No matter how difficult it is, the children in several villages will go to school. As long as these children learn something, their future life will always be better than ours."
Lin Fan smiled and said, "It will get better and better."
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When he returned to the dormitory, it was already completely dark. Lin Fan immediately called Yang Hongxia: "Sister Xia, I want to help those children."
There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!
Yang Hongxia received Lin Fan's call, and as if she had been prepared, she answered quickly: "Yanyan called me before, how do you plan to help those children?"
Lin Fan opened his mouth and spoke for a long time: "How come Yanyan knows me so well?"
Yang Hongxia wanted to roll her eyes. Why was she being fed dog food again for no apparent reason? But that wasn't the point.
"What are you going to do? Donate to a primary school so that the children can go to school more conveniently? Or sponsor them to study?"
Lin Fan said: "Neither, I plan to build a road for them."
Yang Hongxia was silent for a while before she said, "You have to think it through. Donating to a school or helping poor students are both tangible forms of help. When you talk about it later, there will be a trace to follow, and those haters won't think you're doing charity just for show. Building roads..."
Lin Fan smiled and said, "I just want to build a road because I don't want to put on a show. Sister Xia, whether it's donating a school or funding students, it can only help a certain group of people. I've seen these villages in the mountains, and what they lack is actually a convenient and fast road, a road that connects the mountains to the outside world."
If you want to get rich, you must first build roads. Many poor areas are not short of resources, but because of the lack of roads, companies are unwilling to settle down and developers are unwilling to come. Local specialty agricultural products cannot be transported outside, and they can only rely on local production and sales. The market capacity cannot be increased, which leads to a vicious cycle and the people become poorer and poorer.
Donating a school without teachers is useless? Sponsoring a few poor children, what will happen in the future? Will new children still have to go through the same cycle?
Therefore, it is better to teach a man to fish than to give him a fish.
Lin Fan didn't want to put on a show, he just wanted to help the people in this village. Although these people were poor, they were hardworking and simple. Building roads was indeed not as "good-looking" as building schools and subsidizing students. However, building roads was the most direct way to help the economic development of the entire region.
Yang Hongxia touched her increasingly thinning hair and sighed, "Okay, I get it. Just focus on filming and leave this to me."
"Thank you, Sister Xia!"
Yang Hongxia hung up the phone, then she remembered that she seemed to have forgotten to tell Lin Fan that Lian Xiaoyu had become her new assistant?
Forget it, I won’t say any more. Just wait until he finishes filming and comes back to watch it yourself.
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